The Crusades of Cesar Chavez (93 page)

Jane Fonda joins Chavez on a march through the Coachella Valley. (Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)

John Giumarra throws up his hands in mock surrender as he signs the historic grape contracts on July 29, 1970; his son, John Jr., looks on at far right. Celebrating victory, from left, are Jerry Cohen, Bishop Joseph Donnelly, and Monsignor George Higgins. (Cris Sanchez/Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)

Chavez in front of the Salinas jail, where he spent nineteen nights in December 1970 on a contempt charge for boycotting Bud Antle lettuce. (George Ballis/Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)

Salinas residents chant “Reds go home” as Ethel Kennedy walks with Dolores Huerta from an outdoor mass to the Monterey County jail to visit Chavez on December 6, 1970. (Gene Daniels/ Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)

Eliseo Medina, joined by Dolores Huerta, leads a march in Chicago to support the boycott. (Courtesy of Eliseo Medina)

Chavez waves an American flag as a lettuce worker addresses a Salinas rally of farmworkers eager to strike; Marshall Ganz looks on. (Courtesy of Bob Fitch photo archive © Stanford University Libraries)

Jessica Govea, smiling, at a rally in Delano on Mexican Independence Day, September 16, 1972; Virgina Jones on Govea’s left. (Courtesy of Govea family)

Cesar looks on as Manuel Chavez shakes hands with William Kelly, a Coca-Cola executive, after signing a contract for orange workers in Florida in April 1972. (Hap Stewart/Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)

Chavez campaigns for the boycott on the Phil Donahue show in August 1972. (Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)

A farmworker reads
El Malcriado
in the waiting room of the UFW clinic in Calexico, under a larger-than-life poster of Chavez. (Glen Pearcy/Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)

Joan Baez and Taj Mahal sing at the funeral of Juan de La Cruz, a sixty-year-old farmworker shot on a picket line in August 1973. (Cris Sanchez/Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)